Albert DeSalvo claimed to have murdered 13 women in the Boston area between June
1962 and January 1964. He confessed to the murders after being sent to Bridgewater
State Hospital in Massachusetts.

It
was on this day...

1788 First Australian Penal
Colony Established

736 convicts sent
from England to Australia landed in Botany Bay. 50,000 criminals were transported
in this way over the next 60 years.

The
strategy resulted from the belief by the ruling classes in England at the time,
that criminals could not be rehabilitated, and thus must be kept apart from the
rest of the population. But those sent to Australia were hardly hardened troublemakers,
with one 70 year old who stole cheese to eat, being sent.